--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/MoinMoin/script/xmlrpc/retrieve.py	Fri Nov 02 12:43:42 2007 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-
+"""
+    MoinMoin - page contents retriever
+
+    @copyright: 2007 MoinMoin:JohannesBerg
+    @license: GNU GPL, see COPYING for details.
+"""
+
+import xmlrpclib
+
+from MoinMoin.script import MoinScript
+
+class PluginScript(MoinScript):
+    def __init__(self, argv, def_values):
+        MoinScript.__init__(self, argv, def_values)
+        self.argv = argv
+
+    def mainloop(self):
+        s = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(self.argv[0])
+        print s.getPage(self.argv[1])

--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/MoinMoin/script/xmlrpc/write.py	Fri Nov 02 12:43:42 2007 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+# -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-
+"""
+    MoinMoin - page contents writer
+
+    Commented example of how to edit a page with xmlrpc.
+
+    @copyright: 2007 MoinMoin:JohannesBerg
+    @license: GNU GPL, see COPYING for details.
+"""
+
+import xmlrpclib
+import sys
+
+from MoinMoin.script import MoinScript
+from MoinMoin.support.multicall import MultiCall
+
+class PluginScript(MoinScript):
+    def __init__(self, argv, def_values):
+        MoinScript.__init__(self, argv, def_values)
+        self.argv = argv
+
+    # script entrypoint
+    def mainloop(self):
+        # grab parameters
+        url = self.argv[0]
+        user = self.argv[1]
+        passwd = self.argv[2]
+        pagename = self.argv[3]
+
+        # get auth token from server giving username/password
+        s = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(url)
+        token = s.getAuthToken(user, passwd)
+
+        if token == '':
+            print 'Invalid username/password'
+            return
+
+        # Verify that the token is valid by using it
+        # and checking that the result is 'SUCCESS'.
+        # The token should be valid for 15 minutes.
+        assert s.applyAuthToken(token) == 'SUCCESS'
+
+        try:
+            # read new page contents
+            content = sys.stdin.read()
+
+            # build a multicall object that
+            mcall = MultiCall(s)
+            # first applies the token and
+            mcall.applyAuthToken(token)
+            # then edits the page
+            mcall.putPage(pagename, content)
+
+            # now execute the multicall
+            results = mcall()
+
+            # everything should have worked
+            # instead of the asserts you can have anything else
+            # but you should definitely access all the results
+            # once so that faults are checked and raised
+            assert results[0] == 'SUCCESS'
+            assert results[1] == True
+
+        finally:
+            # be nice to the server and clean up the token
+            # regardless of what happened
+            assert s.deleteAuthToken(token) == 'SUCCESS'